The 5 Cost Traps That Will Quietly Bleed Your AI API Gateway Dry (And How to Fix Them) (opens in new tab)

In my last post, we talked about key cache invalidation — the silent production killer that turns your gateway into a 502 factory. Today I want to talk about something equally dangerous but far more insidious: cost traps. These aren't bugs. They're not crashes. Your gateway runs fine. Your users are happy. Then finance sends you a Slack message: "Why did our OpenAI bill jump 4x last month?" I've been running LiteLLM Proxy in production for multiple teams across three companies. Here are the f...